I was brought up on a farm in Southwest France, eating farm-fresh produce three times a day. It was paradise on Earth, and it shaped my eating habits and my sense of taste. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Gastronomy is my hobby. I'm simply the casting director. Once I've brought all the right people together, it is they who must work together to tell a story. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea,… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate...you can mix two styles and get fusion; any more and you just get confusion. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts. — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
